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Display problem with Nvidia card Quadro FX540.

Hi all,

I am newbie on Linux, after some effort (to me anyway )I manage to install the Mandrivia LE 2005, as I am setting up a duel boot system, I have been using LILO as my boot loader, there is no problem in booting to either window or Linux. Except in Linux, at the end of all the checks (all status are OK) and just about the GUI is being loaded, the whole screen went blank, while the mouse is still working. nothing is displaced, it just hanged !!!

During the installation, as I could not see the FX540 being listed, so I just picked Nvidia generic hoping in hell that all thing will work !!! Unfortutunately Not !!!!

I have since download the latest driver from Nvidia, the file is: Nvidia-linux-x86-1.0-7667-pkg1, since I have not set up linux application yet, this was down load in window, I have copied this file to a CD.

I can boot to the Linux console OK, but this is as far as I can go......
How do I go from here !!?? ,

i.e

How do I copy this file from the CD to a directory !?
Which directory do I copy to ? Do I need to delete some existing file ?
What existing configuration file I need to change & how to do it ?

My knowlege on the command console is minimal.
Any help & comment is much appreciated.

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Li...667/README.txt
For detailed instructions : you will need to edit one of your files afterwards, that will require reading this.
To edit your x config file, use msdos-like navigation commands "cd.. cd foldername", and then you can use a console-mode text editor like vi (vi nameofthefileyouwanttoedit), even though at first time you use it will be a nightmare, i'm afraid.

To be able to access the file(s) on your CD you have to mount it. To mount it you have to know what device it is (/dev/[xxx]). There is often a symlink between /dev/cdrom and your device so you could try to use /dev/cdrom in the following command:

Code:

# mount /dev/&#91;xxx&#93; /mnt/cdrom

Just change [xxx] to the cdrom device. Remember to make sure that the mountpoint /mnt/cdrom exists before mounting. When you have mounted your cdrom you can copy over the Nvidia-linux-x86-1.0-7667-pkg1.run file to your home directory and then run it with these commands:

I post this just in case, I have already noticed that, in my case, instead of "load glx", for my GeForceIV, it says :
Load "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so"
It works fine for me, so if "load glx" fails, you could try that ;o)

Besides, Bluemoon, I tested again and the readme.txt link works fine o_O
Perhaps you need to first open the html page, after which you could open the readme... o_O

Thx nalg0rath, I do appreciate your help. I installed ed, gedit and vim during the setup. I am doing a google search on how these editor work.
everything is starting from basic for me !!!
One thing i noticed during the status check at boot up is i am in run level 3. So i suppose I am in the correct level !?

My system is 2 hd system with the DVD/CD writable drive.
so hdc will be my first try.

my probing around revealed the xorg.conf is actually in / dirctory.
I seem can't find xorg.conf in /etc, I can't even find /X11 in /etc.
But I look more carefully this time ......

Also when I tried to open xong.conf in /, there seem to be nothing in the file anyway, I think I just have keep at it and tryout everything.

Runlevel 3 is good so far, you might want to change it later when yo've installed the drivers to make the computer boot into a graphical login.
Are you sure that there isn't a /etc/X11 -directory? remember that linux is based on unix and therefore case sensitive.